[VerySadAmerican]

bureaucratic cost-cutting...that’s always the problem...bureaucrats!

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Why don’t we just rename the VA the NHS? This is exactly the sort of crap they put up with in jolly old England. Now extended to a veteran near you.

[skr]

Murder, plain and simple

[lepton]

Cost cutting at the VA during the second year of the stimulus dumping money on the ground.

[kelly4c]

bookmark

[airborne]

The very next line in this story says it all -

“That was done because of dollars and cents. For the VA, they have to be bleeding out of their rectum before they would authorize a colonoscopy. That was the standard of care,” he said.

[elpadre]

I have long believed the VA, and other bureaucracies, cook the books, or keep two sets of books, in order the look good and increase their individual annual bonuses.

I don’t know when the bonuses for everyone scheme came into play for federal workers, but it has come as a detriment to effective government - and menace to the taxpayer.